Chapter 43 - Since 1979 part 1/3

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A car for free in response to my prayer

  I told you earlier when I was 1978 in Borås, Sweden, that I would ask Yehowah to get a car so I could get to work a lot faster than walking first, then a local bus and finally a long distance bus. I would have saved an hour in my travel time. At that time, my faith was not enough to receive a Volswagen.

  While living in Helsinki 1979, I received a prayer answer, a better car than Volkwagen, a very little used and in good condition Ford Anglia. 1968! (See photo below)

  I got this car from Yehowah Elohim in such a way that I prayed for a suitable city car and brought it in prayer only for him to know. I didn't tell my prayer to anyone else that nobody would give it to me because I was begging. I prayed that I first explained why I wanted the car.

  It would then save my traveling time by about an hour one way also 2 hour per daily, as I lived on Iso Roobertinkatu in Helsinki and my workplace was in Koivumankkaa, Tontunmäki in Espoo. I promised to take the car this time if Yehowah agreed to give it me for free.

  I didn't want to buy a car because then I would have had to reduce the monthly support to the gospel work. I told Yehowah I wanted a reliable and easy-to-park car with low petrol consumption. It should be white in color, which would remind me to keep my soul always pure, that is, bleached in the blood of the Lamb.

  I decided to pray only once for getting the car total free without a penny. And after that to thank that it was already my own. If I had prayed the same thing over and over again, I would only have shown unbelief that my prayer had not even been heard. Our heavenly Father hear our prayers already before we pray. That's why I prayed only once and wrote the date. 

  I prayed, “My dear Heavenly Father. I approach you with prayers in the name of your beloved Son Yeshua. I ask you to give me a suitable passenger car with low fuel consumption and reliable service. It should be easy to park in Helsinki and it should be white in color. Plus it must be completely free for me! If this prayer is good for you, I promise to bring your beloved believers with that car to meetings as needed. 

  I will not tell this prayer to any person and I will not pray this again, but from now on I will only thank you for my car once a day for a month. Then I won't mention a word anymore! May your will be done. Thank you! HalleluYah! Amen!"

  I did just that, and when the month had passed and I had already thanked my car every day, I decided to forget it. Less than two weeks later, a believing brother by alias name Martin called me and asked me to come to Kallio, Karhupuisto, in Helsinki. I went there at the appointed time. I saw him on the edge of the park with Leo, a believer, and sitting in a white person car, Ford Anglia.

  He pointed me to come the car, asked me to sit in the car, drive it, and asked us to do a little drive around the block. We did it and then stopped at the same edge of the park. I said, that's a smart city car! I asked, "When and where did you get this?" No answer, but…

  Martin asked, "Do you want this for yourself and for free?" I was surprised and replied, "Wait 10 seconds." I quietly asked Adonai in my heart, "Adonai, is this the car I was praying for?" He whispered in my ear, "Don't all the signs fit it?" I said, "Yes sir! Them fit fully. Thanks, HalleluYah!”

  Then I said to Martin: "I'll take this gladly, for I secretly prayed a car, just like this!" Then Martin sighed with relief and said, "So it was, after all, the will of the Lord, though I doubted that you did not even want a car!" I asked, what he meant? 

  He said he prayed for three days within one week of the Lord, that to whom the Lord wants him to give this car and every time he heard in his heart in response: "Give it to Lefa!" He replied: "But he has an upscale job, but I'm unemployed, and I can't afford to keep the car for tax sake. I got it as a gift, so I can't sell it."

  Martin had received the car as a gift from a lady, whom he had helped to believe in Jesus. Martin could not refuse the gift because the lady insisted on receiving it! The car had been kept in a barn for years. That lady did not dare to drive a car in Helsinki. Martin could not afford to keep a car while unemployed and his good friend owned a car rental company and had given Martin permission to use his cars for free. 

That was the car's story.

Working with hindu with alias name Shabh N. Tseri!

  I told of a dream I had seen earlier that an angel dressed in white took me to the center of a big dump. There was a neat spot with a large, very gorgeous frame set on a table. It had white cloth stretched on it and the angel said me, "Draw a painting!" I had been pondering this for some time while working at Orion.

  While still working on that Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) project, my closest colleague was Shabh N. Tseri, an Indian Doctor of Technology. As I took photos of the magnifying images projected onto the TEM fluorescent top in the dark test room with Tseri, I also testified to him about my Savior, when we were alone, and there was plenty of time for discussion.

  He said he was a Hindu and read every day one chapter of their holy book Bhagavad Gita, which is translated as the "Song of the Spirit". It is a collection of poems "From Song to the King of the Sun" with 42 chapters and 700 verses. It is written in Sanskrit and was written at the start of the Kuruksetra war 5,000 years ago, when Krishna was discussing the meaning of life with his friend Arjuna. It was written in the Bhagavad-gita, the book considered to be the best of Veda Scriptures.

  Tseri said in his earliest childhood memory that at age 3, he had seen several drowning bodies on the banks of a stream after the flood. I prayed silently for guidance in my heart on how to get Tseri to read the Bible. I heard the Holy Spirit' answer, "Suggest that you borrow him the Bible for read and ask him to borrow his Holy book to you for read!"

  I did so and Tseri happyly accepted it! A few months later, he had read through the Bible and found it a very interesting book. Similarly, I said I was amazed at Bh. Gita!

The angel asked me to draw a painting

  We became close friends. One day, Tseri asked me to lunch with him at the Orion clerk's diner, where only the company's executives were dining. He asked me to sit opposite a handsome man and introduced us to each other saying, "Here are two really smart men face to face, a true Jew and a respectable Christian. You probably have a lot in common. Now talk to each other and I'll be happy to listen!"

  At that moment I heard the voice of the Holy Spirit, "Here are the empty painting frames you saw. Handsome frames, but life is missing! Paint the painting, tell him as much as you can about me!" I couldn't even begin when that man (alias David) already said, "We Jews have nothing in common with Christians! They always try to convert us to Christians."

  I said David was right. We Christians read the same Bible, but also its newer part called the New Testament, and we believe that Yeshua is the Savior of the whole world. Instead, Jews read only the Old Testament of the Bible and other books written by their rabbis, and do not believe in Yeshua the Messiah. 

  That was the first time I talked to David about Bible and faith. We continued the discussion on other issues because I did not want to force him to talk of the thing he wasn't interested in. Later, I continued discussing with David about faith in the Holy One of Israel. I namely called him by phone a bit later. 

  Shortly thereafter, I was instructed by my boss to retrieve 5 liters of Spiritus Fortis (96% alcohol) for washing in an ultrasonic washer to clean the metal parts of the TEM before assembly. When I went to that department with a magnificent and glorious golden cross round my neck as usual, I saw that David was the head of that department and other Jewish man worked there with him.

  David stared at my cross as enchanted as did the other man too and marveled at the order paper I had given him! I had received that golden cross from my mother as a 30th birthday present. I had never seen such a great cross before! It was engraved so that it shone from any direction, if only the weakest beam of light hit it! 

  David picked up the liquid canister in question and said, "This order is very special, because that liquid could only be made available with the permission of the Medical Board and I have received permission to your order!" I told him the purpose of the liquid and that I bring back the rest of what I do not use in the cleaning operation. I thanked them and left. In due course I returned the rest of the solution, but at that time we did not discuss religious matters.

  A little later I called David on the phone and said Yehowah loves him and all the Jews very much! He said excitedly, "My God died when Hitler destroyed about 6 million Jews in concentration camps!" I answered with a calm voice, "I know for sure that he loves you!" I didn't say any more then.

I'll come back to David again later.

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